Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
The Little Prince 
And Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“s timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.
The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. ‚In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don“t dare disobey, ‚ the narrator recalls. ‚Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.‘ And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator“s imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.